PORTLAND, Maine -- Erasing any potential doubts, U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe told a Maine Public Radio call-in program that she intends to seek a third term in 2006.

"I am running for re-election," Snowe said Monday. "It's sort of early to announce all that, but people have asked me so I obviously want to make sure that people know that I do intend to run for re-election."

The only thing worse than her winning is for a "liberal / progressive" Democrat to win - and I'm a little shaky on that, if is were a moderate or more conservative Democrat. It is painful to listen to that woman talk, much less to endure her political activity.

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posted on 12/14/2004 6:13:04 AM PST
by RAY
(They that do right are all heroes!)

But an even better one is why can't we find a conservative Republican to run against her in the primary?

We gave Specter a little scare with Toomay . . . maybe we've learned enough to make a successful run at Snowe. If nothing else, if we can make it close . . . damn close . . . maybe she'll feel more like a "team player" after the election.

I'm a proud Texan . . . but if we learned anything in this past election it's that other states' elections have a profound impact on ALL OF US. I'd gladly donate to a conservative Pubbie to run against Snowe, Collins, McCain, etc.

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posted on 12/14/2004 6:29:41 AM PST
by geedee
(History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.)

She would make a great character for a Stephen King novel. Agony, the next chapter of Misery. She seems innocent enough, but something is wrong, terribly wrong. On dark and stormy nights in the Senate chambers, she can be heard wailing 'Nay' to all Republican proposals. While dragging the chains of moderation through the Rotunda. Fear her, legislators, she's a woman with no political soul. {{{{{shudder}}}}}}

I'm a proud Texan . . . but if we learned anything in this past election it's that other states' elections have a profound impact on ALL OF US. I'd gladly donate to a conservative Pubbie to run against Snowe, Collins, McCain, etc.

And that's a fact!

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posted on 12/14/2004 6:38:00 AM PST
by SheLion
(Only 10 more days until Christmas Eve!!!)

I don't care a diddle if the dems run a ressurected Joseph STALIN against her, she isn't going to win thanks to this jaded Yankee's vote.

Not that she'll ever need it, of course.

She has incumbancy for life if she wants it, and any "Republican" who wants to mount a primary challenge against her WILL be hung out to dry by their own Party, so they'd better have lots of independant resources handy.

They might as well run as a third party or independant as try to beat Snowe within the Party that she pretty much owns in this State. Heck; it worked for KING, didn't it?

Re my #28 - The text I copied and pasted had "Democrat" crossed out. I ain't that, but I darn sure am Conservative and proud of it, too.

Of course if a rational common - sense old style Democrat like the Senator Zell MILLER ran in Maine, I might be tempted.

Shucks; "W" is no real prize to the Conservative cause, despite what the lamestream media whines about his "extreme right-wing fanaticism" - but he ain't all that bad, I don't suppose, and he sure beat Hanoi KERRY by a country mile!

Neither O'SNOWE or COLLINS ever saw an abortion, tax, or Clinton that they didn't like, I reckon.

Snowe and Collins are surely operating under the influence of a malevolent spirit. If they weren't in politics, they'd be earning a nice living on a psychic hotline. Not much difference anyway. They both look as though they would quickly revert to a more witch-like appearance. There is something about them that is rather unsettling and occultic.

Maine needs an exorcism. And I haven't even mentioned Baldacci and his ilk...

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